The prestigious restaurant ranking La Liste has just announced its top 1,000 restaurants in the world for 2026.

This year a whopping 83 British restaurants made it into the global list, which is not too shabby. But even better is that one English resto was named the second-best in the whole world.

Launched in 2015, La Liste compiles thousands of publications, guidebooks and reviews, and combines them with the views of thousands of chefs. The ranking then picks out the world’s 1,000 best restaurants, giving them a score between zero and 100. The winners were announced at a glitzy awards ceremony in Paris on November 24.

L’Enclume, a three Michelin-starred restaurant in the Lake District, was named number two on the planet by La Liste. The restaurant, founded in 2002 by chef Simon Rogan, scored a massive 99.0 in this year’s awards. The dining experience at L’Enclume (which is French for ‘anvil’, due to the restaurant being found inside a former blacksmiths) is based around a multi-course seasonal tasting menu that draws heavily on ingredients from Rogan’s own 12-acre farm nearby. 

L'Enclume, restaurant in England
Photograph: L’Enclume

This isn’t the first time L’Enclume has been featured on La Liste. In 2023 it was named the best restaurant in the world, scoring 99.5. This year it was beaten by 10 eateries that took the number one spot, all scoring a whopping 99.5 out of 100. Among the world’s best restaurants were Le Bernardin in New York, Gus Savoy in Paris, and Matsukawa in Tokyo. 

Out of the 83 British restaurants named in La Liste, 28 of them were in London. The highest scoring London restaurants in this year’s ranking were Core by Clare Smyth in Notting Hill and the Ritz Restaurant in Piccadilly, both earning 98 points and coming in joint fourth place. 

Elsewhere, Moor Hall in Lancashire ranked in seventh place, and the North Wales restaurant Ynyshir, where diners will gorge on 30 courses over up to five hours, came in eighth. 

Every British restaurant named in La Liste 2026

L’Enclume, Lake District
Core by Clare Smyth, London
Ritz Restaurant, London
Moor Hall, Lancashire
Ynshire, North Wales
Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, London
The Glenturret Lalique, Crieff
Sushi Kanesaka, London
Gordon Ramsay, London
Waterside Inn, Maidenhead
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, London
Midsummer House, Cambridge
The Fat Duck, Bray
Brooklands by Claude Bosi, London
Osip, Bruton
Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham
Lympstone Manor, Exmouth
The Araki, London
The Clove Club, Londo
Story, London
Woven by Adam Smith, Ascot
Row on 5, London
The Angel at Hetton, Skipton
Edinbane Lodge, Edinbane
Hambleton Hall, Oakham
Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Auchterarder
Annwn, Narberth
Northcote, Blackburn
Allium – Askham Hall, Penrith
Kol, London
Mýse, York
Outlaw’s New Road, Port Isaac
Paul Ainsworth at Number 6, Padstow
Morston Hall, Holt
Pine, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sketch – The Lecture Room & Library, London
Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal, London
A Wong, London
Endo at the Rotunda, London
The Black Swan at Oldstead, York
Opheem, Birmingham
The Dining Room at Whatley Manor, Malmesbury
The Sportsman, Whitstable
The Forest Side, Ambleside
Hide and Fox, Hythe
The Latymer, Bagshot
Solstice by Kenny Atkinson, Newcastle upon Tyne
Da Terra, London
House of Tides, Newcastle upon Tyne
Interlude, Horsham
Kitchen Table, London
Muse, London
Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall, Ripon
The Whitebrook, Monmouth
Trivet, London
Cornus, London
The Old Stamp House, Ambleside
Ikoyi, London
Sosban and The Old Butchers, Menai Bridge
Cedar Tree by Hrishikesh Desai, Brampton
Hjem, Hexham
The Kitchin, Edinburgh
The Ledbury, London
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London
Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside
Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham
Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh
The Cocochine, London
Humble Chicken, London
OX (NI), Belfast
The Peat Inn, Cupar
Haar, St Andrews
The Hand & Flowers, Marlow
Gravetye Manor, East Grinstead
Inver, Cairndow
Ormer Mayfair, London
Forge at Middleton Lodge Estate, Richmond
Home by James Sommerin, Penarth
SOURCE at Gilpin Hotel, Windermere
Cail Bruich, Glasgow
Number One at The Balmoral, Edinburgh
Gymkhana, London

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